Improvement in pen-holders



NITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

EMILE BARBEROT, OF PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH REGKEN- DORFER, OF NEWV YORK CITY.

IMPROVEMENT IN PEN-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,729, dated September 14, 1875 application filed August 31, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMILE BARBEROT, of Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pen-Holders, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to a pen-holder composed of two concentric tubes or sleeves, the outer one of which is capable of being rotated on the inner one for the purpose of releasing the pen, audit is directed to means for combining and joining the two tubes.

'In the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a pen-holder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section of the same. Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6 are views of detached parts, hereinafter referred to.

A is the outer tube, and B the inner tube, cut away on one side, after the pattern of ordinary pen-holders. The blanks from which the tubes are formed are shown in Figs. 3, 4:, 5. Fig. 5 represents the blank, which is bent into cylindrical form to form the inner tube. The blank from which the outer tube is formed may be as in Fig. 3, with a plain edge, a, at the end where the pen is held, or, as in Fig. 4, with a scalloped edge or indented edge, I). The corresponding edge of the blank of the inner tube is formed with prongs or fingers c, as shown in Fig. 5. These blanks are fashioned by suitable means into tubes, the one design ed for the outer tube being of a diameter to fit snugly, but not too tightly, over the inner one. That end of the inner tube which is intended to fit the pen-handle D is encircled and bound by a ferrule or ring, 0, (shown detached in Fig. 6,) whose exterior diameter is about equal to that of the outer tube. This ring or ferrule may be fitted to the inner tube, either before or after the inner tube is fitted to the tenon on the pen-handle. The outer tube is thenslipped onto the inner tube until its end abuts against the edge of the ring or ferrule G. Then the prongs or fingers c are bent outwardly, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, and the pen-holder is completed. 4

It will be understood, of course, that the outer tube is shorter than the inner tube by just so much as will permit it to be held between the ferrule at one end and the bent fingers or prongs c at the other end. Into the space between the two tubes comprised between the prongsv c, the pen is inserted.

If desired, the pen-holder can be secured to the handle by a pin, d, passing into the handle through the ferrule. This method of uniting the two parts of the pen-hold er is very simple and inexpensive. It enables them to be easily and quickly titted together, avoids all projections or depressions on the holder, and allows it to have a perfectly smooth, even, and unbroken exterior.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

The combination, with the inner tube, its encircling ferrule, and retaining prongs or fingers, of the revolving outer tube, held between said prongs at one end, and the ferrule at the other end, as shown and set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 2d day of July, A. D. 1875.

E. BARBEROT.

Witnesses:

J ULEs, R0131. M. HOOPER. 

